The day began with news of the latest horrific turn in Syria’s civil war and speculation over whether the United States would enter the fray bombing. But the bombshell that dominated at the end of the day was the FBI’s raid of Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s office and hotel room. The Washington Post speculates that Cohen is being investigated for illegal campaign...

Every week before we begin our podcast, we come up with a list of topics we want to cover. And the news hits us so fast that we keep forgetting things that were huge just a few days ago. So we began this week’s podcast with the Facebook data breach on tens of millions of Americans utilized by Cambridge Analytica. But so much more has been happening Yesterday, a serial bomber that...

The day began with news of the latest horrific turn in Syria’s civil war and speculation over whether the United States would enter the fray bombing. But the bombshell that dominated at the end of the day was the FBI’s raid of Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s office and hotel room. The Washington Post speculates that Cohen is being investigated for illegal campaign donations (relating to the Stormy Daniels payout) and...

Every week before we begin our podcast, we come up with a list of topics we want to cover. And the news hits us so fast that we keep forgetting things that were huge just a few days ago. So we began this week’s podcast with the Facebook data breach on tens of millions of Americans utilized by Cambridge Analytica. But so much more has been happening Yesterday, a serial bomber that had been terrorizing Austin detonated himself to...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders says lots of laughable things in her daily press briefings, but yesterday took the cake, as she proclaimed that “This is an intense place, as is every White House, and it’s not abnormal that you would have people come and go.” This was after being questioned about the unprecedented rate of personnel turnover for an administration that’s only been in power for 14 months. But the loss of Gary...

There’s been a ton of news this week at an even more dizzying pace than usual. We’re going to discuss as much as we can fit into a one hour podcast, but felt it important to talk about how very different the gun debate feels after Parkland, thanks to the remarkable student leaders from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High. And while we are proud to be part of this groundswell, we would be remiss if we did not contrast that with...

A ProPublica analysis of voting machines found that over two-thirds of counties in America used machines for the 2016 election that are over a decade old. In most jurisdictions, the same equipment will be used in the 2018 election.